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  1. jockox3

    Dawn Phenomenon - What the hell is that..??

    I had just posted about this elsewhere by coincidence. This phenomenon has been one of the most intractable aspects of my diabetes - rising inexorable from the dead of the night, however low I've got overnight, and regardless of whether I have breakfast or not. I'd managed to limit it by...
  2. jockox3

    Chuffed with HbA1c

    Whilst I was diagnosed (T2) years ago, I never really took it seriously until my doctor got a bit angry with me in March after some horrible figures in January's test. I've been using the Freestyle Libre and have almost completely changed my eating/exercise regime (was too much/too little and...
  3. jockox3

    Cannabis use and diabetes

    I can attest to that! In fact there's a nice little vapourizer branded by a certain rapper named after a spying canine who was on the Branson related commission on legalising cannabis. First time I tried it, we thought nothing was happening. No taste, no real "throat hit", and we wondered if...
  4. jockox3

    Can I take an extra metformin

    I'm using one of those Freestyle Libre devices, so I can see the whole picture in the morning. It concerns me as well a little, but now my range is 4-8 I can usually remain within it even with the Dawn Phenomenon pushing it up from the high fours to the high sevens. A brisk walk will help it...